January 22, 2019
by A Camp
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Category:
Growth | Tags: prayer, psalms
In Psalm 90:12, Moses lays out a long list of petitions, asking God to act. What does he request of God? I suggest that each of you read these and pick out one or two of them to focus on this week. They can serve as a starting point to recalibrate 2019 in light of who God is and who we are....
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January 20, 2019
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth | Tags: Gentleness, Edwards
Many of my books sit on the shelf only being referenced once every year or two, as need arises. There are other books like "Jonathan Edwards on the Christian Life," by Dane Ortlund that I come back to again and again. And there is one chapter in this book that I find exceptionally helpful to me personally as I seek to grow in my faith; his chapter on "Gentleness: The Aroma...
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January 9, 2019
by Anthony Gosling
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Category:
Growth
By “reason,” I mean rational thinking and God-given common sense. Proverbs 3:5 does not say, “do not use your understanding” but rather, “don’t rest on human understanding, don’t make it your ultimate rule; don’t put all your weight upon it!” Instead, put all your trust in God who rules and over-rules all human decisions. There are always gaps in our know...
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January 7, 2019
by Anthony Gosling
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Category:
Growth
Of all the issues that cause stress and confusion among Christians, the question of divine guidance must be near the top. How can I know God’s will for me? Are there certain steps we need to learn in order to access information from God that we would not otherwise know? How does God guide me?...
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December 30, 2018
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth
The garage door went up and out went our minivan. For the first time in nearly 8 years, I wasn’t going to church. I was scheduled to preach, but stomach issues laid me low, so home I sat (providentially with an internet outage to remove the temptation of NFL Countdown)....
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November 10, 2017
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth
It’s not enough to be interested or intrigued by Jesus. We can’t stop at agreeing intellectually to some facts about who he is...
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November 4, 2017
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth
In Luke 12:22, Jesus is reminding us of our value to him, so much more than other things of creation. He provides for those other things, so why are we anxious about those things that we can’t ultimately control? Jesus concludes Luke 12 with the call, “Seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.”
What does it mean to seek his kingdom? ...
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November 3, 2017
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth
We should spend ourselves, no matter how many years we have left, waiting purposefully for Jesus return by working for his glory. Luke 9-19 points to a number of ways we can do this. Today, we will focus on how as we wait, we should be about the business of being good stewards of what he has entrusted to us....
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November 2, 2017
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth
We should spend ourselves, no matter how many years we have left, waiting purposefully for Jesus return by working for his glory. Luke 9-19 points to a number of ways we can do this. Today, we will focus on how as we wait, we should be about the business of showing mercy toward those in need. ...
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October 26, 2017
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth
Jesus has a call in Luke 19:11-27 for how we are to live as we wait for him to return: we need to be busy about kingdom work. In short, we’re not called to kill time or be distracted as we wait, but to work...
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October 18, 2017
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth
Throughout the Bible, we see that God is a missionary God...
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October 12, 2017
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth
The faith of a follower of Jesus is a dependent faith, dependent on God who does the impossible...
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October 24, 2012
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Growth , 1 Thessalonians
At the heart of the gospel and the Christian life is the person and work of Jesus. If Jesus is most excellent and above all and if Jesus is worthy of all the praise of the universe, then it would follow that for our thinking to be what Paul is calling for in Philippians 4:8, “If there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise†then it must find i...
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April 27, 2012
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Jonah, Growth
We will be starting a four week series on the book of Jonah this Sunday, April 29, 2012. In preparation for the series, take some time with your family to read the book of Jonah together....
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April 4, 2012
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Easter, Growth | Tags: Easter
Part 2 of our Easter series of posts about the truth of the resurrection:
I heard a speaker say recently that it was not as if the disciples were sitting around on Saturday night after Jesus died on Friday having a party saying, "I can't wait until tomorrow!" The disciples, though Jesus had clearly taught of his coming death and resurrection, didn't "get it" until he ap...
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December 24, 2011
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Advent, Growth
A Short story for children (and adults!) that was written by Pastor Jeff Brewer about Amanda Snidefeller, the little girl who was positively fed up with Christmas. It was shared on Christmas Eve at Hope Fellowship....
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December 19, 2011
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Advent, Growth | Tags: Advent
At Hope Fellowship we have been looking at the incarnation through the lens of how Christ is our King. It has been a joy to worship together celebrating advent for the first time as a new church.
The links to the audio for the four week series are now online. ...
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September 26, 2011
by Jeff Brewer
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Category:
Live with a Mission, Growth
As long as Rachel could remember she wanted to be an attorney. While it was a little awkward to be the only kid at halloween carrying a briefcase, she stuck to her dreams until she passed the bar exam on the first try. If people thought she was driven during law school they would have been surprised to learn that she actually had another gear in the workplace; no amount o...
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